That deep, immersive experience of reading around a theme … is an experience, I think, that’s best had between the covers of a book. Scrolling and toggling and moving from screen to screen is trance-like, sure. But it’s a different experience, physically, to spend two hours on the Internet versus two hours in a book. …
Tag Archives: Louise Erdrich
Done with my exam and degree o/ Let the reading for fun begin!
theparisreview: “It didn’t occur to me that my books would be widely read at all, and that enabled me to write anything I wanted to. And even once I realized that they were being read, I still wrote as if I were writing in secret. That’s how one has to write anyway—in secret.” —Louise Erdrich …
I approach the work as though, in truth, I’m nothing and the words are everything. Louise Erdrich (via theparisreview)
Yes, tears can be thoughts, why not? Louise Erdrich: The Round House p. 60
CLARITY AND CHAOS 